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prepend ◴[] No.41897599[source]
My kids’ school added a new weapons scanner as kids walk in the door. It’s powered by “AI.” They trust the AI quite a bit.

However, the AI identifies the school issued Lenovo laptops as weapons. So every kid was flagged. Rather than stopping using such a stupid tool, they just have the kids remove their laptops before going through the scanner.

I expect not smart enough people are buying “AI” products and trusting them to do the things they want them to do, but don’t work.

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closewith ◴[] No.41901375[source]
Reading this comment, it sounds to me that you live in a dystopian nightmare.
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immibis[dead post] ◴[] No.41901723[source]
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1. briandear ◴[] No.41901942[source]
“Regularly” is not a particularly accurate word.

50 million K12 students in the U.S. — how many mass murders are “regular?”

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2. pjc50 ◴[] No.41902073[source]
Any at all? I don't think Americans realize how much of a US-only problem it is, and how some of the non-US mass shootings are explicitly inspired by US media and discourse.
3. sqeaky ◴[] No.41902085[source]
More than once a week not quite once a day.

Rather than trying to diminish something that's completely preventable and abhorrent maybe we could discuss ways to actually prevent it. Because this isn't a problem anywhere else so clearly it's preventable.

If AI can be part of a solution here this is a reasonable place to discuss it.

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4. bigstrat2003 ◴[] No.41902129[source]
Nobody said we shouldn't try to solve the problem. But the first step is accurately describing the problem to be solved. Something that occurs once a year across the entire country has very different solutions than something which occurs once a week in every county.
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5. closewith ◴[] No.41902178[source]
I wonder if you realise how much of a dystopian nightmare you have to be living in to write a comment like this and consider it reasonable.
6. immibis ◴[] No.41902988{3}[source]
More than once a week is regularly. Doesn't matter how wide the geographical area is - ANY school in the USA might be next, so they ALL have to take precautions.
7. croo ◴[] No.41902990[source]
I had the same line of thought as I am not following the topic and media hype can make an elephant out of a mouse.

But based on this 2022 statistics USA really has a thing going on with school shootings... more than a hundred per year is way too much. I would definitely consider it "regularly" even if it seems a low number statistically (50 million students === 1 shooter / 500000 student ~?~ 1 shooting / 1000 school).

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19982.jpeg

8. hnlmorg ◴[] No.41903068{3}[source]
The problem is already well defined as regular school shootings. I don’t think redescribing the problem helps anyone apart from the NRA.